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Dickens Festival

Friday, December 7, 2012

Weekend Top 5: Dickens, Fireworks & More Holiday Festivities

Check out these great events close to home and around the region this weekend.

  Are you looking for something to do this weekend? Check out our top regional events: 1. Dickens Festival 2. Malvern's Victorian Christmas 3. SCEE Winterfest 4. Holidays and Fireworks at the Willows 5. Christmas at the Farm

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12:37 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012

Malvern Victorian Christmas also has many indoor things, if rain's not your gig. Events and open houses abound from Knots & Weaves, down to Malvern Federal (for the canned food drive). There's sacks and a setup or model trains at the National Bank of Malvern, and Malvern's Historical Commission will have their books for sale there, too.   more ›

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Dickens Festival Draws Thousands

Haverford Township residents come out to enjoy the world of "A Christmas Carol"

In 2009, as chilly temperatures mixed with blue skies on a lovely December Saturday afternoon, organizers in Narberth were looking at each other in wonderment, after all their top hats were gone and all their maps were swept up and all their mugs bought. What to do in 2010, when the weather might not be so fair? Lay in more stuff, evidently. Not enough top hats for kids who tracked down all the "A Christmas Carol" characters?  Introduce pins for the vets. More will come. And they did—even as the weather held up like a brass knocker. ­ Havertown resident Renee Grant, a member of the Narberth Community Theater, was not performing on Saturday, but she seemed perfectly at ease—in costume. Sporting a bright red cape, black skirt and matching …

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